Eloise Grills’s graphic narrative, “Feral”, is a deceptively simple glimpse of the dilemmas we face in our daily lives as our understanding of what it means to be a conscious, ethical and committed citizen of the world becomes more complex.

The third in the Nocturnal Series is an essay by Ellen Murphy called “The Dark of Night”, a piece which, due to its nuance and honesty, has had the slightly oxymoronic effect of tightening the focus on some very muddy and uncertain areas of my thinking.

For the first instalment of the Nocturnal Series, Laura Stortenbeker makes a trip to Kooragang – home to one of the world’s largest coal ports, fed by the open cut coal mines that devastate the Hunter Valley.